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  <h3 class="term">ABDICATION</h3> 
  <div class="part">n.</div> 
  <div class="definition"> 
    An act whereby a sovereign attests his sense of the high 
    temperature of the throne. 
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      <div class="quote-line">Poor Isabella's Dead, whose 
      abdication</div> 
      <div class="quote-line">Set all tongues wagging in the 
      Spanish nation.</div> 
      <div class="quote-line">For that performance 'twere 
      unfair to scold her:</div> 
      <div class="quote-line">She wisely left a throne too 
      hot to hold her.</div> 
      <div class="quote-line">To History she'll be no royal 
      riddle &mdash; </div> 
      <div class="quote-line">Merely a plain parched pea that 
      jumped the griddle.</div> 
      <div class="quote-author">G.J.</div> 
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  <h3 class="term">ABSOLUTE</h3> 
  <div class="part">adj.</div> 
  <div class="definition"> 
    Independent, irresponsible.  An absolute monarchy is one 
    in which the sovereign does as he pleases so long as he 
    pleases the assassins.  Not many absolute monarchies are 
    left, most of them having been replaced by limited 
    monarchies, where the sovereign's power for evil (and for 
    good) is greatly curtailed, and by republics, which are 
    governed by chance. 
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